3,000 power theft cases dealt with Lok Adalats

Electricity distribution company discom BSES has settled a large number of power theft cases through special Lok Adalats

New Delhi: Electricity distribution company (discom) BSES has settled a large number of power theft cases through special Lok Adalats.

The computerised Lok Adalats organised over this weekend as a paperless process by BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd (BRPL) and its sister discom in the capital, BSES Yamuna Power Ltd (BYPL), settled over 3,000 cases, according to a BSES release in Delhi on Monday.

“These Lok Adalats settled over 3,000 cases. It was the second Lok Adalat organised by BSES discoms in the last couple of months,” the release said.

The special courts on February 9-10 were organised by the Delhi Legal Services Authority (DLSA) and BSES at the district courts in Karkardooma, Saket and Dwarka, and at the Permanent Lok Adalat Building near ITO.

“The Lok Adalats in December 2018 had settled around 4,000 power theft cases,” it added.

Over 37,000 cases have been settled by Lok Adalats, so far.

BSES said the special courts provided customers in east, west, central and south Delhi, a one-time opportunity for an amicable and on the spot settlement of cases relating to power theft and meter tampering.

Many of these cases were pending in courts.

“For customers, it meant an opportunity to amicably settle their cases. For an over-worked judiciary, it meant some burden off their courts. For BSES, it meant more people coming into the billing net,” a BSES spokesperson said.